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==Early life==

The appearance of Greek partisans in those areas persuaded the Italians to allow the formation of these detachments.<ref name=Miller>{{cite book|title=Bulgaria During the Second World War|last=Miller|first=Marshall Lee|year=1975|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=0-8047-0870-3|page=129|quote=In Greece the Bulgarians reacquired their former territory, extending along the Aegean coast from the Struma (Strymon) River east of Salonika to Dedeagach (Alexandroupolis) on the Turkish border. Bulgaria looked longingly toward Salonika and western Macedonia, which were under German and Italian control, and established propaganda centres to secure the allegiance of the approximately 80,000 Bulgarophones in these regions}}</ref> The Bulgarian plan was to organize them militarily in the hope that Bulgaria would eventually assume the administration there. The appearance of Greek partisans in Western Macedonia persuaded the Italian and German authorities to allow the formation of Slav security battalions led by Bulgarian officers. The initial detachments were formed in early 1943 in the district of [[Kastoria]] by Andon Kalchev with the support of the head of the [[Italy|Italian]] occupation authorities in Kastoria lieutenant Ravalli,<ref name="стр.122-123">Егеjски бури&nbsp;— Револуционерното движење во Воденско и НОФ во Егеjска Македоница. (Вангел Аjановски Оче), Скопје, 1975. стр. 122-23 {{in lang|el}}</ref> who armed the local villages to help combat the growing resistance activity by the [[Greek People's Liberation Army|ELAS]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

 

 

During 1944, whole called by the Greeks Bulgarophone (now Slavophone) villages were armed by the occupation authorities to counterbalance the emerging power of the resistance and especially of [[Greek People's Liberation Army]] (ELAS). On 5 April 1944, rebel group EAM-ELAS attacked a German convoy of lorries killing 25 soldiers. The Germans later in the afternoon, arrived gathered men, women, children and elders of the village and executed between 233 and 300 people.<ref>Георги Даскалов, Участта на българите в Егейска Македония 1936-1946г. Политическа и военна история, София 1999г., стр.830, б. 384 {{in lang|bg}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greekholocausts.gr/gr/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D50%26Itemid%3D47 |title=Greekholocausts.gr - Κλεισούρα, 5 Απριλίου 1944|access-date=11 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928225821/http://www.greekholocausts.gr/gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=47|archive-date=28 September 2011}}<br>''Klisoura Kastoria: Brief History of Events: Narrative Volunteer Red Cross'' by E. Kalfoglou (08/04/1944){{in lang|el}}</ref><ref>Nikolaos Siokis, [http://www.ptolemaida.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3394:-5-1944-270-&catid=38:news&Itemid=166&layout=default&month=5&year=2011 Ptolemaida TV] (05/04/2011).</ref>

 

 

==Dissolution of Ohrana and extraordinary military court death sentence==

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